A four month search for 67 year-old Billy Jean James of Las Vegas, Nevada ended when her husband finally spied her ossified feet sticking out from a pile of clutter inside their home. 

Kind of conjures up the Wizard of Oz, doesn’t it?

Billie Jean James, Going… Read full post »

 Millard Fillmore ...  Forgotten But Not Gone.
(Source: Wikipedia File Photo)

I have walked around a coin on my living room floor for several days now, thinking it was some arcane device of my daughter’s.  I was surprised to learn it was a gold plated Millard Fillmo/… Read full post »

Men.  Sometimes It Sucks To Be Us.
(Photo from Wikipedia) 

According to a recent study found here, men think about sexual intercourse 13 times a day, which annualizes to 4,700 times and change.

I don’t know.  That seems to be awfully low.  Think of those/… Read full post »

The current dust up around the intent to erect a Mosque near 9/11 saddens me greatly.  It saddens me over the seeming insensitivity to it all to those deeply wounded by the events of 9/11.  It saddens me over the vituperative responses.  It saddens me over what I fear might be… Read full post »

Levi Johnston, the sperm donor in the romantic misalliance with Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol that spawned the love child known as Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, has decided to follow in his unwed Mother-in-law’s footsteps.

Levi Johnston For Mayor?  … Read full post »

The Boss was a morning person and a commodity salesman.  He founded a company intending it to provide subscription services; failed at that services model, and kept it afloat positioning into low end consulting work.  A COO installed by the venture board turned the place around.  I men… Read full post »

 Republican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey
(File Photo on his official Website)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a breath of fresh air.  Winds bring oxygen reigniting smoldering matters into flames, and Governor Christie could very well catch fire in a country worr/… Read full post »

This is for any old waterskier from the 70s still in love with their wooden slalom ski, but not getting up on it much, if at all.

 You can Still Get It Done If You Lose The Wood

I spent my childhood summers on a lake in the 1970s. … Read full post »

I have written before about a family lake house built by my grandfather in 1929 on a lot he won in a poker game during WWI.  It went from him to my mother.  I bought it in 1994 with the proceeds covering nursing home care.  I like to say I prepaid… Read full post »

Political rhetoric clouds issues.  Nothing exemplifies this better than the recent discussion around extending unemployment benefits.

Republicans, as is their wont, managed to take a reasonable point and shoot themselves in the foot with it.

The debate spun around to cutting off needy families… Read full post »

 (Political Talking Head Practicing His Moves Before Meet the Press)
Courtesy of Inmagine.com

The electorate is angry.  They see stimulus spending and deficit spending while they tighten their belts and watch business lay people off and do similar budget cutting.

They wa… Read full post »

I work with MSNBC on in the background.  It is all part of being sucked in by the Morning Joe program and being too lazy to flick.

 Sometime in the afternoon it gets a little too tough to take, particularly with Ed Schultz.  Recently Ed has been clammering on and on about… Read full post »

A drunk tourist in Australia jumped a fence at a crocodile park and attempted to ride a 16 foot long crocodile named Fatso. 

Ok.  Why did the news report feel the need to tell us the guy was loaded?  Was this to differentiate his state of being from simply being abje… Read full post »

Dear Farmville,

I have played Farmville for about 10 months.  It was a compromise for my tweenage daughter to create such a farm on my Facebook account.  She splits time between her mother and me as the divorce proceeds apace, and it was something we were able to do together… Read full post »

I watch very little NBA basketball and actions like this are a big part of the reason.  Lebron James has been a "King" in Cleveland by virtue of being an oversized physical human being with a very undersized sense of human decency.

Lebron grew up in the Cleveland area and is… Read full post »

I was auditing MSNBC while reading a book yesterday when this little nugget tumbled from the blond coifed visage of the eye appealing talking head:  One in four Americans cannot properly identify the country from which we gained our Independence.

Sweet Jesus, are you fucking kidding me?

Si… Read full post »

Finally a nitwit article I can get enthusiastically behind!  (And who can't get behind a behind enthusiastically, I might add?)

 Dr. Mehmet Oz, the host of the syndicated “Dr. Oz Show” and a cardiothoracic surgeon has come out with a rather provocative statement I am… Read full post »

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt — Abraham Lincoln

Mindlessly cooling down on the couch after a 20 mile bike ride while playing Block Breaker, I really had not noticed the Nightly News had ended and… Read full post »

A recent article darted across the screen, and I could not look away.  It stated it had ten great ways to reduce stress.  The lead in of the article discussed the tanking economy, real estate challenges, and job loss.  Well, considering my business failed and a contentious di… Read full post »

With their publicist, Shirley U. Geste, at their side, actor/comedian brothers Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray confirmed that Admiral Thad Allen, top Coast Guard official in charge of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster, was their long lost brother.

 How Different Events Could Have Been H… Read full post »

It sounds hyperbolic to call June 4^th 1940 the greatest moment of the 20^th century, but I believe very strongly that it was.  Had that date not been the culmination of a heroic effort by an entire nation to save its armed forces, Western Civilization as we know it could very… Read full post »

Is this REALLY happening or are we all just sleep walking through a macabre Three Stooges episode?  I sit here ostensibly working with MSNBC on continuously so I can keep tabs on the world around me as I go about my business.

Right now it is all Gulf all the time. … Read full post »

The nitwit headlines on the Compuserve Banner got me again like a shiny object to an ADHD-Addled Adolescent.  This one simply said:

Online daters are not known for telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth in their profiles.

Well no shit, Sherlock.  This is new news?  Equally… Read full post »

Rand Paul, we hardly knew ye.

Rand Paul has made the top of the news cycle but not in a good way.  Scott Brown dominated the news cycle when he sprang onto the scene with his humility.  He paid tribute to Teddy Kennedy and to Teddy’s widow.  He spoke of… Read full post »